Clarion 1941-04-01 Vol 20 No 12

THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XX No. 12
BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.)
April 1, 1941
Chapel Chorus
Offers Cantata
Sem Seniors Sponsor
Newest Organization
Bethel's newest organization, the
Bethel Chapel Choir, will be spon-sored
by the S. S. C. in singing the
"Seven Last Words of Christ" at
8:15 P. M. in the College Chapel
on the evening of Tuesday, April 8.
The program will be under the di-rection
of J. Gordon Peterson, di-rector
of the choir.
Four individuals, Dorothy Nel-son,
Ethel Tederman, Ruth Lund-quist,
and Mary Anne Liljenstrom,
will take the soprano solos, and
five men, Maurice Valine, Virgil
Olson, Roger Youngquist, Truman
Halvorsen, and John Valine will
sing the tenor and baritone solos.
The cantata, a composition by
Theodore Dubois, is built about the
scene of the crucifixion.
The introduction, "All Ye Peo-ple,"
is a soprano solo. Baritone
and tenor soloists together with
the choir sing the first word, "Fa-ther,
Forgive Them," and this is
followed by a tenor and baritone
duet, "Today Shalt Thou Be," with
a choral background. The third
word, "Woman, Behold Thy Son,"
is sung by soprano, tenor, and bari-tone
soloists, also with a choral
background.
"My God, My God, Why Hast
Thou Forsaken Me?" the fourth
word, is a baritone solo, and the
fifth word, "I Thirst," will be sung
by tenor and bariton, supported
again by the chorus. The sixth
word, "Father, Into Thy Hands I
Commend My 'Spirit," a tenor solo
with the chorus, leads up to the
climatic "It Is Finished" with a
choral background for soprano,
tenor, and baritone solos. The
grand finale in the form of a pray-er,
"Thee We Adore, 0 Christ" in
its majesty, brings out all the joy
of victory over death and the
grave.
Through its renditions every
Wednesday morning in the com-bined
Chapel, and by singing at
special services in the Central Bap-tist
Church, the Choir under Mr.
Peterson's capable direction, has
gained 'a reputation for fine choral
work. It will sing amidst a beau-tiful
Easter setting and at this
program will display for the first
time its new robes, donated by the
Women's Federation.
Clarence Olson, former Bethel
student, will play the accompani-ment.
Committees in the Senior Class
are working hard to make this one
of the outstanding programs of the
year. In charge of decorations is
Virgil. Olson; ticket sales are in
charge of Alrik Bloomquist, and
John Valine • is in charge .of adver-tising.
Although this is the newest or-ganization
in the school, it has al-.
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Fever Germs
Again on Loose
Stop that bug! That which Dr.
Concentration feared all winter
long has happened! The fearful
pestilence has loosed its mischief
upon the peoples of the world. The
earth is fraught with danger. Any
corner that you turn may prove
you are at the mercy of the ter-ror!
Don't let anyone sneeze in your
direction. Bugs! Don't eat with
anyone's spoon—Bugs ! Serum is
being rushed in by Dr. (Dean)
Johnson and his colleagues, Facul-ty.
It is hoped that the panic may
be checked before the danger is,
too widespread.
The department of Public Mo-rale
has issued strict instructions
to be on the lookout for the bac-teria
that has caused so much
chaos.
What!
A report has just been released
that Professor Fridolph Nelson has
succumbed. Here is an account of
the experience in his own words:
"Spring is coming. How I have
missed that rosebush which blooms
three hundred and sixty-five days
a year in front of my Berkeley,
California, home! They say Spring
here in Minnesota, is unusual. How
I anticipate it!"
Oh, happy, glorious, joyous
spring fever!
ready made a name for itself, and
has proved itself to be deserving
of complete support by the entire
student body and faculty. Admis-sion
will be twenty-five cents to
all students in any school, and
thirty-five cents to all adults. Pro-ceeds
from the concert will be used
to buy a suitable gift for the
school from the graduating class of
the Seminary.
Campus Calendar
When What
April 8 Sr. Sem. Program
April 9 Alexis
April 10 Easter Vacation
April 21 Classes Resumed
Planned For Easter
Prof. Norstrom to Accompany
Group to S. Dakota, Iowa
In accordance with present plans,
a Gospel Team sponsored by the
Religious Council will visit several
Swedish Baptist churches in Iowa,
South Dakota, and Minnesota dur-ing
the week of April 14 through
20.
On the team will be: Bill Hag-strom
and Gunnar Hoglund, who
will preach; Roger Youngquist,
Ethel Tederman, Harriet Ander-son,
Howard Olson, and Gerald
Larson, who will drive. Professor
Norstrom will accompany the
group.
The first service will be held in
the Lake Sarah, Minnesota, church
on Monday evening, April 14. From
there the team will travel to Ar-thur,
Iowa; Kiron, Iowa; Sioux
City, Iowa; Big Springs, South Da-kota;
Alcester, South Dakota;
Worthington, Minnesota; returning
the following Sunday afternoon.
The team will present a varied
program of music and testimony
in each of these churches. The
group will travel in the Bethel Gos-pel
Team bus.
Building Committee Meets
Saturday noon, March 22, the
special building committee for the
Women's Dormitory met with the
architect, Howard Skoglund, to
discuss plans for the building.
The various officers for the com-mittee
were chosen. Dr. C. G. Bur-ton
was chosen chairman; Thor
Knutson, vice-chairman, and Mrs.
H. Johnson, secretary.
They decided to meet twice a
week to keep in contact with the
building progress at all times.
At this meeting they definitely
decided on the size of the rooms
and the corridors. They also
changed the plans to include a full
basement.
Soph Program Is Success
The Minneapolis A Capella Choir,
featured by the Junior College
Sophomores last Friday evening,
drew a crowd which listened at-tentively
as the choir progressed
through its repertoire of choral se-lections.
A privilege to listen to, the choir
brought a 'concert similar to that
given in its annual musicale re-cently.
Prof. George Hultgren di-rects
this well known and acclaim-ed
group.
Use of Prayer Towers Urged
Reuben Nelson Is Speaker
This year as we approach the
Easter season, students here at
Bethel are turning their attention
toward the Religious Emphasis
week to be held April 7 through
10. This week is intended to be a
time of reconsideration of the value
of Christ's death and resurrection.
More than that it is intended to
be a time of spiritual refreshing
and of reconsecration to His serv-ice.
The activities of the week will
be centered about the daily chapel
services at which Rev. Reuben
Nelson, secretary of the Minnesota
Baptist Convention, will be the
guest speaker. The Seminary and
the Junior College students will
join in these services.
An important part of the week
will be the daily, prayer meetings
and the prayer towers. Bethel has
been founded on prayer and has
often shown the power of prayer
in the lives of students. This week
should therefore be a week of con-tinued
and earnest prayer. Already
students have begun to pray for
this week that it might be a time
of real spiritual blessing to every-one.
This will be the first year that
the week has been designated as
Religious Emphasis Week al-though
pre Easter consecration has
been a main issue. In thus setting
aside such a week, Bethel is join-ing
with many other colleges which
have similarly provided a period
for deeper consideration of spirit-ual
things.
Harry Abrahamson is chairman
of the committee which is arrang-ing
the programs for the chapel
services. Working with him are
Martha McMillen, Hazelle Fossum,
and William Hagstrom.
With the prayers of students be-hind
it, this Religious Emphasis
Week will be a mountain-top ex-perience
in the lives of all Bethel-ites.
"FEED ME!"
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placed in the mail square for your
convenience. Place all and sundry
contributions to the editor in it.
The Clarion box pleads: "Feed
me!"
Religious Emphasis Stress Is
Major Message of Easter Week
Gospel Team Trip Consecrated Life Is Goal
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Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
Alecidatian
By Ray Appelquist
The great English artist, Turn-er,
has painted some very delicate
shadows in one of his masterpiec-es.
Two men were looking at this
particular painting and one re-marked
to the other, "Aren't those
shadows along the fence marvel-lous
?"
"I don't see any shadows," the
other rather cynically replied.
The first man asked quietly,
"Don't you wish you could?"
We who have found and followed
Christ have had a new and differ-ent
world of appreciation opened
to us. When first we yielded to the
Master, we found "evidence of
things not seen." That which was
revealed to Paul "constrained"
him to go out and lead others to
the light.
The vision should have the same
effect in our lives, but quite often
we underestimate the privilege of
having spiritual sight, and more
often we hesitate to assume the
duty which it demands. Successful
Christian service depends upon the
proper evaluation of our privilege
and the glad assumption of our
duty.
"I was not disobedient unto the
heavenly vision." Acts 26:19.
Can These Things
—Be True?
A church statistician says that
five per cent of all church mem-bers
do not exist; ten per cent of
them cannot be found; twenty-five
per cent never go to church; fifty
per cent never contribute a cent
to the work of the church; seven-ty-
five per cent never attend the
mid-week prayer service; ninety
per cent do not have family wor-ship
in their homes; and ninety-five
per cent never try to win a
lost soul to Christ. If the state-ment
is true, it is startling.—The
Watchman Examiner.
The Ram's Tale
Not most of us, but too many of
us, have put too much reliance on
the ram of the Golden Fleece. As
in the Greek myth of old we look
for the ram to appear, to rescue us
from a cruel stepmother of our
own designing.
The fact that we ourselves de-signed
the pitfall is the most pite-ous
aspect - of all.
How often you and I put off in-significant
but inevitable tasks of
small fame in favor of some deed
that absolutely must be done, here
in school for instance.
It is no uncommon thing to let
written work slide by in order to
better prepare an oral talk; or to
do the written work to the exclu-sion
of the reading assignment. If
such and such a task "puts us on
the spot," so to speak, we invaria-bly
get it in.
There is definitely a problem
concerned with this situation. Do
we fail ourselves, and discredit our
honor personally by skipping that
which we feel will never be miss-ed?
But, did I say "never be miss-ed"?
Common experience has
proved that the "never be missed"
is missed, about four times a
school year, and those who have
slipped through, in sinking despair,
scan the sky for the glint of Gold-en
Fleece.
Always the ram fails us as com-pletely
and miserably as it rescued
Phrixus and his sister Helle. We
turn to face doom.
Is the immediate result of our
negligence and procrastination the
only evil? Has the ripple of our
supposedly insignificant splash
ceased after the first widening
halo?
There are those who say no.
There are some who go so far as
to say that a part of our moral in-tegrity
has been destroyed. To say
that we have robbed and cheated
—ourselves!
Phrixus and Helle were lifted
through the air while pleasant
breezes brushed away the dark
cobwebs of sadness. We feel the
heavy stigma of a brand descend
upon us.
You think we're gonna write hu-mor—
That today the joke will be
rule—You think we'll spout forth
with—Well .... APRIL FOOL!
On this day especially dedicated
to us, and you, and you, we're
gonna pull an April Fool and be
serious. (Did we hear someone say
we never were very funny?)
Well, to get on. Did you know?
1) That C. E. Carlson once failed
in history? (There's hope for
all of us.)
2) That Fridolph Nelson once
caught a bank robber—while
working in a bank in Cali-fornia?
3) That Bill Adam once broke
the U. S. record in pole vault.
ing?
4) That Miss Johnson was ex-pelled
from a high school for
sassing the teacher?
(ha! ha! April Fool)
Ah me! What to talk about?
Tests are over, we don't know yet
whether March will go out like a
lion or a lamb. Bev Jones and Nel-ton
F. haven't made any more
claims to immortality, all the them
students have been so busy tear-ing
their hair over experiments,
etc.—and you and you and you
haven't done anything worthy of
note—but anyway here goes.
Theme song of every stu-dent
after mid-semesters—"It
all comes back to me now."
. Speaking of mid-semesters,
one brilliant wag was heard to
remark after the mod. world
It all started with a task whose
completion was entrusted to our
sense of honor. A task that never
was completed. Sure, we failed in
a test, but also we failed in a major
battle with our better being.
Everything links with the old
saying, "Little acorns into mighty
oak-trees grows." What kind of
oak-trees will grow from your
acorns; the straight and mighty
oak or a pitiful gnarled specimen
of frustrated growth?
BREAD
Gazing on moonlit fields last night
That rippled in changing shades of
delft,
It seemed each wheat head of it-self
Glowed with a strange unearthly
light;
And out of the silence I heard one
say,
"Who eats of this bread shall know
again
Hunger—until his heart is clay!"
Then in a vision I saw a room
In a quiet home and a table spread,
Where One with pale hands broke
the bread.
Whose words of truth shattered
life's gloom
And made each listener hold his
breath;
"This is my body; who eats of it,
No more shall hunger, nor taste of
death!"
—John Richard Moreland.
history ORDEAL —"Napoleon
and me—We both met our Wa-terloo
in European history."
And then there is Herr
Jorgenson, who flipped a coin
to determine whether he'd try
"die" or "der" in the German
test.
Some paragraphic thots for all
guys and gals what have an early
case of Spring fever—
"Love may make the world go
'round but some people are dizzy
even before it." (Not mentioning
any names.)
"They say absence makes the
heart grow fonder—but we think
it's presents does the trick."
"Marriage is an institution of
learning where one loses his Bach-elor's
degree and acquires a Mas-ter's."
Some people think they're
smart! Forinstance. Vic 0.
talking about the job he's go-ing
to get. We forget—was it
100,000 or $200,000 a year you
are going to make?
Roger Y. and his definitely
puny puns that never fail to
produce a satisfied smile at
least on him You—you
know who you are—who said
you got thru the Hist test with-out
opening your book
All of which leads us very nat-urally
to our concluding poem—
Dude out west,
Fell by chance
On a cactus—
Smarty Pants!
SHADOWS.
iglanut• diappeotaterS
4 Radg"
Pierre Tangent. '38, is getting his
Master's degree in sociology at the
University of South Dakota. He is
still maintaining his pastorate at
Viborg, S. Dak.
Rudy Gustafson, C.W.C. '37, has
received a six months deferment
from the army, so that he can
build a house. He and Maxine
Luhmen, '38, are to be married
April 12, after which the army gets
Rudy.
Eddie Nelson, '39, and Wilbur
Sorley, '39, have been holding a
series of Sunday School efficiency
conferences throughout the state.
Herman and Mrs. Tegenfeldt, '40,
send the following note from Sing-apore:
"Singapore is surely some
place. You can see all colors of
skin, behold all types of dress, and
smell all kinds of odors. Eddie has
gotten a light case of measles, but
is getting over it. Tomorrow we
leave for Penang, where we wait
about ten days and leave for
Rangoon, getting there about Feb.
23."
Rev. E. E. Hall, '09, pastor of
the Lakeview Baptist church, Chi-cago.
Ill., has been on the campus
both as a speaker in the college
and in the seminary.
Thu the Trance-urn
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Heitzman Takes
Speech Honors
Two Newcomers, Veteran
Place In Home Meet
Eleven hopeful aspirants, all
women, competed for the laurels
in the Interpretive Reading Con-test,
Wednesday, March 26, in the
seminary chapel.
There were three divisions in the
contest: ten girls took part in
Poetry, four in Prose, and two in
Drama.
The winners in the poetry divi-sion
were the following: First,
Helen Heitzman, who read "The
Barrel Organ" by Alfred Noyes;
second, Betty Anderson, who in-terpreted
"Patterns" by Amy Low-ell;
and third, Ruth Lundquist,
who gave "Jazz Fantasia" by Carl
'Sandburg.
In prose, the first honor was giv-en
to La Verne Berglund, who read
"Later" by Michael Foster, and
second to Helen Heitzman, who
read "They Grind Exceeding Small"
by Ben Ames Williams.
The first place in drama was
won by Joyce Johnson, who read a
scene from "The Fool" by Chan-ning
Pollock, and the second by
Ruth Lundquist, who read a scene
from "The Taming of the Shrew"
by William Shakespeare.
The critic was Miss Hazel Hog-lund,
instructor of English in Ano-ka
High School. Along with the
rendering of the decisions, she
gave constructive criticisms of the
interpretations of each contestant.
The program was as follows:
Poetry -
"Chicago" Carl Sandburg
Miriam Johanson
"Lilacs" Amy Lowell
Violet Carlson
"Patterns" Amy Lowell
Betty Anderson
"The Blindman" Harvey Allen
Olga Anderson
"The Barrel Organ" Alfred Noyes
Helen Heitzman
"Eruption in Utopia"
Genevieve Taggard
Joyce Johnson
"Four Preludes on Playthings of
the Wind" Carl Sandburg
Jeanette Peterson
"To a Contemporary Bunk-shooter"
Carl Sandburg
Betty White
"A Musical Instrument"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Phyllis Karlson
"Jazz Fantasia" Carl Sandburg
Ruth Lundquist
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Bethel Men Hold
Festivity Night
Laying aside their duties for an
evening, the men of Bethel met to-gether
in the J. C. Chapel for an
evening of fun and entertainment.
Mr. Harry Brownlee presented a
magically illustrated sermonette.
After a couple of cuts of apple
pie a la mode, the group was
shown a sound film dealing with
training of pilots for the U. S.
Army Air Corps. This feature was
especially interesting to the young
men, because of the extensive
training being given at the present
time. The film started out with
the greenhorn pilot, who had just
enlisted to train in a civilian fly-ing
school. After a period of train-ing
in fundamentals of airplane
flight, the pilot was transferred to
Randolph Field, "West Point of
the Air." Three months were
spent here training in basic com-bat
training planes. An advanced
course in formation flying, aero-nautical
engineering principles,
airplane mechanics, and related
courses was given in an additional
three months visit to Kelly Field,
the main training field of fighter
pilots. The pilot not only learned
of combat in the sky, but was also
drilled in ground drills and tac-tics.
Dean Emery Johnson was mas-ter
of ceremonies at the party.
Prose
"The Weaker Sex" Jane Youngman
Jeanette Peterson
"They Grind Exceeding Small"
Ben Ames Williams
Helen Heitzman
"How I Succeeded in My Busi-ness"
Stephen Leacock
Violet Carlson
"Later" Michael Foster
Laverne Berglund
Drama
"The Fool" Channing Pollock
Joyce Johnson
"The Taming of the Shrew"
Shakespeare
Ruth Lundquist
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Frosh Lectures
By Dave Moberg
March 21 Professor Norstrom
spoke on the subject "Christian
Service through Natural Sciences."
Many problems and many voca-tions,
such as medicine, crime, and
armies and navies, have arisen be-cause
man fell into sin. God has a
definite relation to every vocation
in the world today. God has said
many things pertaining to science
in the Bible, but it took a long
time for many of them to sink into
the minds and experience of man.
Goodyear, McCormick, Jessep,
Faraday, Baldwin, and countless
other famous Christian scientists
and business men have been will-ing
to sacrifice and suffer so that
others can reap the benefits of
their work.
We should always remember the
first commandment, "Lay all forms
of life under your dominion," and
that means we should begin by
making our own body the type of
machine that will serve us in years
to come. A second thing we should
remember is that we should meet
the problems of our day; they are
the same as those in the days of
pioneers, but they're clothed in
different garments. Above all, we,
as Americans, have a big job, to
make America strong physically,
nationally, and spiritually.
* * * *
On March 28 Professor Carlson
led a class discussion on the sub-ject,
"What Constitutes a Divine
Call in Life and How Does It
Come?"
1. Realization of a need.
2. The ability to fill the need.
3. A desire to fill the need.
4. Opportunity to do the work.
5. A feeling of satisfaction re-sulting
from the decision.
6. Messages from the Scriptures.
7. A still, small, inner voice.
8. Signs (this category would in-clude
all other groups, and would
also include the closing or opening
of opportunities to service).
In closing Professor Carlson
again stressed the fact that there
is no one procedure which we can
lay down and say that this is the
way in which God calls men.
Gospel Groups Visit
Cambridge and Isle
Appelquist, Hoglund,
Johnson Are Speaker
Two gospel teams went out from
Bethel last Sunday to present the
Word in song and speech.
One went to Cambridge where
Ray Appelquist brought the mes-sage
in the morning and Gunnar
Hoglund presented the evening
service. The trio, Dorothy Nelson,
Mary Ann Liljenstrom, and Ann
Marie Wallberg, sang. Francis
McOlash gave an instrumental se-lection.
Professor Norstrom represented
the faculty on the trip, and also
taught the men's Bible class, in
the morning.
A second team traveled to Op-stead
for Sunday morning services,
and to Isle for an evening service.
Gordon Johnson was speaker for
this group. Assisting him in song
were Ruth Elaine Lundquist, Ruth
Johnson, and Leona Smith. Jack
Bergeson drove the bus which
transported both teams, leaving the
first at Cambridge on the way
north.
Sable Speaks at Program
Ably holding the attention of the
Missionary Band members, Miss
Sabel presented an illustrated talk
on the work being done for the
lepers throughout the world.
"This field was once neglected,"
said Miss Sabel, "but at the pres-ent
time at least two denomina-tions
are working in this field."
Following Miss Sabel's talk, Le-ona
Pearson read excerpts from
some recently received missionary
letters. Irene Nelson and Esther
Osby played and sang two songs.
Sara Mae Srwensson and LaVerne
Berglund arranged an interesting
table for the serving of the re-freshments.
After the refresh-ments,
the group enjoyed a fellow-ship
hour.
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Adam Is Given
Radio by Teams
Gift Is Token of Esteem
Players Feel for Coach
The members of the men's and
women's basketball squads met in
the college Coffee Shoppe on Fri-day,
March 28, to honor Coach Bill
Adam. An RCA mantel type radio
was presented him by the players,
managers, and others connected
with the teams as a ,token of ap-preciation
for his endless hours of
painstaking effort on the basket-ball
floor.
In the short time Adam has been
here he has turned out some pow-erful
teams in both the men's and
women's departments. The entire
sports setup has been revolution-ized
under the Adam regime to
give everyone a part in the school's
athletic program.
The presentation of this gift is
merely exemplary of the high es-teem
in which Coach Adam is held
by those who work with him daily.
Baseball Practice Begins
Men Start Workout
In Gym
Baseball practice started official-ly
on Monday, March 24, when
thirteen candidates reported for
the initial workout of the season.
Coach Adam stated that he intend-ed
putting the men through a se-ries
of daily calisthenics and ex-ercises
to loosen up arm muscles
stiff from disuse. Outdoor prac-tice
will be scheduled as soon as
the weather permits.
Prospects for a strong team look
fairly bright as there are seven re-turning
lettermen and plenty of
competition for the open spots re-maining.
Those reporting from last
year's squad are Francis McOlash,
Warren Johnson, Gordon Peterson,
Truman Halvorsen, Red Mar-quardt,
Val Hauk, and Ole Nelson.
New candidates are Herschel Rog-ers,
Conrad Tedlund, Roland Gus-tafson,
Ed Nelson, Elwood Ander-son,
and Vic Osterman.
Last year's outfield returned in-tact
with Johnson in left field,
Marquardt in center, and Halvor-sen
in right. McOlash, Hauk, and
Tedlund will probably get the hurl-ing
assignments while the catch-ing
positiin is still anybody's spot.
Peterson will probably again get
the nod at the initial sack while
the other three infield spots re-main
to be filled. If these posi-tions
can be successfully assigned,
a better than average season can
be expected.
Coach Adam stated that some
work would be done during Easter
vacation to put the diamond in
shape for play. The first contest
of a ten game schedule will be
slated for the first week in May.
CHAPEL SPEAKER
Reverend Carl Nelson, pastor of
the Evangelical Free Church of St.
Paul, will be the chapel speaker
tomorrow, April 1.
Plugs Defeat Gophers
Twice To Enter
Gym Class Finals
After suffering a close defeat at
the hands of the Gophers, the
Plugs, of the freshmen gym class,
came back to capture the class ti-tle
by virtue of two straight vic-tories.
The first game was the
Plug's all the way. They were
leading 13 to 2 at the half, and fin-ished
on the long end of a 27 to 11
score. Wessman led the Plugs
with 14 tallies, while Paul Ander-son
gathered five to pace the los-ers.
In the second game, the Gophers
started out with fire in their eyes.
They were on the long end of a
14 to 11 score at the half, but in
the deciding second half, couldn't
stave off the determined attack of
the Plugs, and succumbed to a 25-
20 defeat. This game gave the
Plugs the freshman class cham-pionship
team of the sophomore
class.
In the first game, the Plugs
'swamped the sophs 42-12. Wess-man
got twenty-one points to lead
the Plugs. Hoglund, captain of the
sophomore team, garnered seven
tallies for the losers. The series
will continue this afternoon, with
the winner of two out of three
games claiming the all-school
championship.
Men's !Recreation Clu6
Will Be Reorganized
At the Bethel men's meeting
sponsored by the faculty on Mon-day,
March 24, it was decided to
reorganize the men's recreation
club for the school year of 1941-42.
A committee of four members was
named to consider possible plans
for revitalizing the club. The com-mittee
members in the order
named, are: Bob Dischinger, Carl
Lundquist, Dury Miller, and Bob
Norstrom.
The club room on the third floor
of the college building is available
but some refurnishing is necessary.
Ping pong tournaments, horseshoe
tourneys, checker and chess con-tests,
and swimming meets would
be sponsored by the ,club. Inci-dentally,
Dean Emery Johnson has
already challenged all corners for a
chess series.
The club was first organized in
1936 and has functioned every year
since but this one. The' biggest
obstacle to overcome is the lack of
an active membership.
A volleyball team representing
the seminary class of middlemen
defeated the seniors in two games
of three by scores of 21 to 14, 20 to
22,, and 21 to 16. The series was
played on Wednesday, March 26, in
the seminary gym.
* *
Then there was the girl who
thought she was the village
belle until she was told.
* * * *
Francis McOlash came back
strong to take the third set of his
series with Gus Ferre for the all-school
handball championship.
Every point was hotly contested
with Mickey copping the first and
third games by scores of 21 to 12
and 21 to 19. Ferre won the sec-ond
by 21 to 11.
* * * *
Woman waits for man to pop
the question and question her
pop.
* * * *
Joe Louis' meeting with Abe Si-mon
in Detroit, Michigan, was his
fifteenth successful defense of the
heavyweight championship of the
world. No other man has ever be-fore
turned back so many contend-ers
for the title, but many of them
definitely belong to the "bum a
month" class with which the Bomb-er
is cavorting at present.
* * *
A woman had two sons. One
went to sea; the other became
vice president of the United
INTRAMURAL SPORTS
Coach Adam stated that intra-mural
softball would be introduced
in all the gym classes immediately
after classes are resumed follow-ing
the spring vacation. Everyone
is required to report for gym ex-cept
those excused for baseball
practice. An interclass tournament
will probably be arranged later in
the spring.
SHOE REPAIR SHOP
Worthy of Christian Support
Blaje Theodoroff, Prop.
Home Phone, MI 8241
Marshall at Cleveland
States and was never heard
from again either.
The basketball team from the St.
Paul Central Baptist church, twin
city B.Y.P.U. champs, defeated a
fast team from the Bethel Baptist
church of Duluth by a score of 50
to S5. High score honors went to
Bill Adam, who caged twenty-four
points. The visitors stayed at the
school overnight and spent Sunday
here in St. Paul.
Life's like baseball. You're
often advanced to second or
third, but getting to first is
your own job.
"Did You Know" Dept
Lester Praire, smallest town in
the state to send a team to this
year's state basketball tournament,
has a population of only 450. Re-markable
is the fact that twenty-seven
of the thirty-five boys in the
school turned out for the squad at
the beginning of the present sea-son.
A man who watches the
clock generally remains just
one of the hands.
Coach Adam announced a pro-gram
of calisthenics for the wom-en's
gym classes and they decided
not to appear for their regular gym
period. Seems they are of the
opinion that no improvement is
necessary, "figuratively" speaking.
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THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XX No. 12
BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.)
April 1, 1941
Chapel Chorus
Offers Cantata
Sem Seniors Sponsor
Newest Organization
Bethel's newest organization, the
Bethel Chapel Choir, will be spon-sored
by the S. S. C. in singing the
"Seven Last Words of Christ" at
8:15 P. M. in the College Chapel
on the evening of Tuesday, April 8.
The program will be under the di-rection
of J. Gordon Peterson, di-rector
of the choir.
Four individuals, Dorothy Nel-son,
Ethel Tederman, Ruth Lund-quist,
and Mary Anne Liljenstrom,
will take the soprano solos, and
five men, Maurice Valine, Virgil
Olson, Roger Youngquist, Truman
Halvorsen, and John Valine will
sing the tenor and baritone solos.
The cantata, a composition by
Theodore Dubois, is built about the
scene of the crucifixion.
The introduction, "All Ye Peo-ple,"
is a soprano solo. Baritone
and tenor soloists together with
the choir sing the first word, "Fa-ther,
Forgive Them," and this is
followed by a tenor and baritone
duet, "Today Shalt Thou Be," with
a choral background. The third
word, "Woman, Behold Thy Son,"
is sung by soprano, tenor, and bari-tone
soloists, also with a choral
background.
"My God, My God, Why Hast
Thou Forsaken Me?" the fourth
word, is a baritone solo, and the
fifth word, "I Thirst," will be sung
by tenor and bariton, supported
again by the chorus. The sixth
word, "Father, Into Thy Hands I
Commend My 'Spirit," a tenor solo
with the chorus, leads up to the
climatic "It Is Finished" with a
choral background for soprano,
tenor, and baritone solos. The
grand finale in the form of a pray-er,
"Thee We Adore, 0 Christ" in
its majesty, brings out all the joy
of victory over death and the
grave.
Through its renditions every
Wednesday morning in the com-bined
Chapel, and by singing at
special services in the Central Bap-tist
Church, the Choir under Mr.
Peterson's capable direction, has
gained 'a reputation for fine choral
work. It will sing amidst a beau-tiful
Easter setting and at this
program will display for the first
time its new robes, donated by the
Women's Federation.
Clarence Olson, former Bethel
student, will play the accompani-ment.
Committees in the Senior Class
are working hard to make this one
of the outstanding programs of the
year. In charge of decorations is
Virgil. Olson; ticket sales are in
charge of Alrik Bloomquist, and
John Valine • is in charge .of adver-tising.
Although this is the newest or-ganization
in the school, it has al-.
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Fever Germs
Again on Loose
Stop that bug! That which Dr.
Concentration feared all winter
long has happened! The fearful
pestilence has loosed its mischief
upon the peoples of the world. The
earth is fraught with danger. Any
corner that you turn may prove
you are at the mercy of the ter-ror!
Don't let anyone sneeze in your
direction. Bugs! Don't eat with
anyone's spoon—Bugs ! Serum is
being rushed in by Dr. (Dean)
Johnson and his colleagues, Facul-ty.
It is hoped that the panic may
be checked before the danger is,
too widespread.
The department of Public Mo-rale
has issued strict instructions
to be on the lookout for the bac-teria
that has caused so much
chaos.
What!
A report has just been released
that Professor Fridolph Nelson has
succumbed. Here is an account of
the experience in his own words:
"Spring is coming. How I have
missed that rosebush which blooms
three hundred and sixty-five days
a year in front of my Berkeley,
California, home! They say Spring
here in Minnesota, is unusual. How
I anticipate it!"
Oh, happy, glorious, joyous
spring fever!
ready made a name for itself, and
has proved itself to be deserving
of complete support by the entire
student body and faculty. Admis-sion
will be twenty-five cents to
all students in any school, and
thirty-five cents to all adults. Pro-ceeds
from the concert will be used
to buy a suitable gift for the
school from the graduating class of
the Seminary.
Campus Calendar
When What
April 8 Sr. Sem. Program
April 9 Alexis
April 10 Easter Vacation
April 21 Classes Resumed
Planned For Easter
Prof. Norstrom to Accompany
Group to S. Dakota, Iowa
In accordance with present plans,
a Gospel Team sponsored by the
Religious Council will visit several
Swedish Baptist churches in Iowa,
South Dakota, and Minnesota dur-ing
the week of April 14 through
20.
On the team will be: Bill Hag-strom
and Gunnar Hoglund, who
will preach; Roger Youngquist,
Ethel Tederman, Harriet Ander-son,
Howard Olson, and Gerald
Larson, who will drive. Professor
Norstrom will accompany the
group.
The first service will be held in
the Lake Sarah, Minnesota, church
on Monday evening, April 14. From
there the team will travel to Ar-thur,
Iowa; Kiron, Iowa; Sioux
City, Iowa; Big Springs, South Da-kota;
Alcester, South Dakota;
Worthington, Minnesota; returning
the following Sunday afternoon.
The team will present a varied
program of music and testimony
in each of these churches. The
group will travel in the Bethel Gos-pel
Team bus.
Building Committee Meets
Saturday noon, March 22, the
special building committee for the
Women's Dormitory met with the
architect, Howard Skoglund, to
discuss plans for the building.
The various officers for the com-mittee
were chosen. Dr. C. G. Bur-ton
was chosen chairman; Thor
Knutson, vice-chairman, and Mrs.
H. Johnson, secretary.
They decided to meet twice a
week to keep in contact with the
building progress at all times.
At this meeting they definitely
decided on the size of the rooms
and the corridors. They also
changed the plans to include a full
basement.
Soph Program Is Success
The Minneapolis A Capella Choir,
featured by the Junior College
Sophomores last Friday evening,
drew a crowd which listened at-tentively
as the choir progressed
through its repertoire of choral se-lections.
A privilege to listen to, the choir
brought a 'concert similar to that
given in its annual musicale re-cently.
Prof. George Hultgren di-rects
this well known and acclaim-ed
group.
Use of Prayer Towers Urged
Reuben Nelson Is Speaker
This year as we approach the
Easter season, students here at
Bethel are turning their attention
toward the Religious Emphasis
week to be held April 7 through
10. This week is intended to be a
time of reconsideration of the value
of Christ's death and resurrection.
More than that it is intended to
be a time of spiritual refreshing
and of reconsecration to His serv-ice.
The activities of the week will
be centered about the daily chapel
services at which Rev. Reuben
Nelson, secretary of the Minnesota
Baptist Convention, will be the
guest speaker. The Seminary and
the Junior College students will
join in these services.
An important part of the week
will be the daily, prayer meetings
and the prayer towers. Bethel has
been founded on prayer and has
often shown the power of prayer
in the lives of students. This week
should therefore be a week of con-tinued
and earnest prayer. Already
students have begun to pray for
this week that it might be a time
of real spiritual blessing to every-one.
This will be the first year that
the week has been designated as
Religious Emphasis Week al-though
pre Easter consecration has
been a main issue. In thus setting
aside such a week, Bethel is join-ing
with many other colleges which
have similarly provided a period
for deeper consideration of spirit-ual
things.
Harry Abrahamson is chairman
of the committee which is arrang-ing
the programs for the chapel
services. Working with him are
Martha McMillen, Hazelle Fossum,
and William Hagstrom.
With the prayers of students be-hind
it, this Religious Emphasis
Week will be a mountain-top ex-perience
in the lives of all Bethel-ites.
"FEED ME!"
Use the Clarion box! It has been
placed in the mail square for your
convenience. Place all and sundry
contributions to the editor in it.
The Clarion box pleads: "Feed
me!"
Religious Emphasis Stress Is
Major Message of Easter Week
Gospel Team Trip Consecrated Life Is Goal
THE BETHEL CLARION
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Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
Alecidatian
By Ray Appelquist
The great English artist, Turn-er,
has painted some very delicate
shadows in one of his masterpiec-es.
Two men were looking at this
particular painting and one re-marked
to the other, "Aren't those
shadows along the fence marvel-lous
?"
"I don't see any shadows," the
other rather cynically replied.
The first man asked quietly,
"Don't you wish you could?"
We who have found and followed
Christ have had a new and differ-ent
world of appreciation opened
to us. When first we yielded to the
Master, we found "evidence of
things not seen." That which was
revealed to Paul "constrained"
him to go out and lead others to
the light.
The vision should have the same
effect in our lives, but quite often
we underestimate the privilege of
having spiritual sight, and more
often we hesitate to assume the
duty which it demands. Successful
Christian service depends upon the
proper evaluation of our privilege
and the glad assumption of our
duty.
"I was not disobedient unto the
heavenly vision." Acts 26:19.
Can These Things
—Be True?
A church statistician says that
five per cent of all church mem-bers
do not exist; ten per cent of
them cannot be found; twenty-five
per cent never go to church; fifty
per cent never contribute a cent
to the work of the church; seven-ty-
five per cent never attend the
mid-week prayer service; ninety
per cent do not have family wor-ship
in their homes; and ninety-five
per cent never try to win a
lost soul to Christ. If the state-ment
is true, it is startling.—The
Watchman Examiner.
The Ram's Tale
Not most of us, but too many of
us, have put too much reliance on
the ram of the Golden Fleece. As
in the Greek myth of old we look
for the ram to appear, to rescue us
from a cruel stepmother of our
own designing.
The fact that we ourselves de-signed
the pitfall is the most pite-ous
aspect - of all.
How often you and I put off in-significant
but inevitable tasks of
small fame in favor of some deed
that absolutely must be done, here
in school for instance.
It is no uncommon thing to let
written work slide by in order to
better prepare an oral talk; or to
do the written work to the exclu-sion
of the reading assignment. If
such and such a task "puts us on
the spot," so to speak, we invaria-bly
get it in.
There is definitely a problem
concerned with this situation. Do
we fail ourselves, and discredit our
honor personally by skipping that
which we feel will never be miss-ed?
But, did I say "never be miss-ed"?
Common experience has
proved that the "never be missed"
is missed, about four times a
school year, and those who have
slipped through, in sinking despair,
scan the sky for the glint of Gold-en
Fleece.
Always the ram fails us as com-pletely
and miserably as it rescued
Phrixus and his sister Helle. We
turn to face doom.
Is the immediate result of our
negligence and procrastination the
only evil? Has the ripple of our
supposedly insignificant splash
ceased after the first widening
halo?
There are those who say no.
There are some who go so far as
to say that a part of our moral in-tegrity
has been destroyed. To say
that we have robbed and cheated
—ourselves!
Phrixus and Helle were lifted
through the air while pleasant
breezes brushed away the dark
cobwebs of sadness. We feel the
heavy stigma of a brand descend
upon us.
You think we're gonna write hu-mor—
That today the joke will be
rule—You think we'll spout forth
with—Well .... APRIL FOOL!
On this day especially dedicated
to us, and you, and you, we're
gonna pull an April Fool and be
serious. (Did we hear someone say
we never were very funny?)
Well, to get on. Did you know?
1) That C. E. Carlson once failed
in history? (There's hope for
all of us.)
2) That Fridolph Nelson once
caught a bank robber—while
working in a bank in Cali-fornia?
3) That Bill Adam once broke
the U. S. record in pole vault.
ing?
4) That Miss Johnson was ex-pelled
from a high school for
sassing the teacher?
(ha! ha! April Fool)
Ah me! What to talk about?
Tests are over, we don't know yet
whether March will go out like a
lion or a lamb. Bev Jones and Nel-ton
F. haven't made any more
claims to immortality, all the them
students have been so busy tear-ing
their hair over experiments,
etc.—and you and you and you
haven't done anything worthy of
note—but anyway here goes.
Theme song of every stu-dent
after mid-semesters—"It
all comes back to me now."
. Speaking of mid-semesters,
one brilliant wag was heard to
remark after the mod. world
It all started with a task whose
completion was entrusted to our
sense of honor. A task that never
was completed. Sure, we failed in
a test, but also we failed in a major
battle with our better being.
Everything links with the old
saying, "Little acorns into mighty
oak-trees grows." What kind of
oak-trees will grow from your
acorns; the straight and mighty
oak or a pitiful gnarled specimen
of frustrated growth?
BREAD
Gazing on moonlit fields last night
That rippled in changing shades of
delft,
It seemed each wheat head of it-self
Glowed with a strange unearthly
light;
And out of the silence I heard one
say,
"Who eats of this bread shall know
again
Hunger—until his heart is clay!"
Then in a vision I saw a room
In a quiet home and a table spread,
Where One with pale hands broke
the bread.
Whose words of truth shattered
life's gloom
And made each listener hold his
breath;
"This is my body; who eats of it,
No more shall hunger, nor taste of
death!"
—John Richard Moreland.
history ORDEAL —"Napoleon
and me—We both met our Wa-terloo
in European history."
And then there is Herr
Jorgenson, who flipped a coin
to determine whether he'd try
"die" or "der" in the German
test.
Some paragraphic thots for all
guys and gals what have an early
case of Spring fever—
"Love may make the world go
'round but some people are dizzy
even before it." (Not mentioning
any names.)
"They say absence makes the
heart grow fonder—but we think
it's presents does the trick."
"Marriage is an institution of
learning where one loses his Bach-elor's
degree and acquires a Mas-ter's."
Some people think they're
smart! Forinstance. Vic 0.
talking about the job he's go-ing
to get. We forget—was it
100,000 or $200,000 a year you
are going to make?
Roger Y. and his definitely
puny puns that never fail to
produce a satisfied smile at
least on him You—you
know who you are—who said
you got thru the Hist test with-out
opening your book
All of which leads us very nat-urally
to our concluding poem—
Dude out west,
Fell by chance
On a cactus—
Smarty Pants!
SHADOWS.
iglanut• diappeotaterS
4 Radg"
Pierre Tangent. '38, is getting his
Master's degree in sociology at the
University of South Dakota. He is
still maintaining his pastorate at
Viborg, S. Dak.
Rudy Gustafson, C.W.C. '37, has
received a six months deferment
from the army, so that he can
build a house. He and Maxine
Luhmen, '38, are to be married
April 12, after which the army gets
Rudy.
Eddie Nelson, '39, and Wilbur
Sorley, '39, have been holding a
series of Sunday School efficiency
conferences throughout the state.
Herman and Mrs. Tegenfeldt, '40,
send the following note from Sing-apore:
"Singapore is surely some
place. You can see all colors of
skin, behold all types of dress, and
smell all kinds of odors. Eddie has
gotten a light case of measles, but
is getting over it. Tomorrow we
leave for Penang, where we wait
about ten days and leave for
Rangoon, getting there about Feb.
23."
Rev. E. E. Hall, '09, pastor of
the Lakeview Baptist church, Chi-cago.
Ill., has been on the campus
both as a speaker in the college
and in the seminary.
Thu the Trance-urn
• • •
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Heitzman Takes
Speech Honors
Two Newcomers, Veteran
Place In Home Meet
Eleven hopeful aspirants, all
women, competed for the laurels
in the Interpretive Reading Con-test,
Wednesday, March 26, in the
seminary chapel.
There were three divisions in the
contest: ten girls took part in
Poetry, four in Prose, and two in
Drama.
The winners in the poetry divi-sion
were the following: First,
Helen Heitzman, who read "The
Barrel Organ" by Alfred Noyes;
second, Betty Anderson, who in-terpreted
"Patterns" by Amy Low-ell;
and third, Ruth Lundquist,
who gave "Jazz Fantasia" by Carl
'Sandburg.
In prose, the first honor was giv-en
to La Verne Berglund, who read
"Later" by Michael Foster, and
second to Helen Heitzman, who
read "They Grind Exceeding Small"
by Ben Ames Williams.
The first place in drama was
won by Joyce Johnson, who read a
scene from "The Fool" by Chan-ning
Pollock, and the second by
Ruth Lundquist, who read a scene
from "The Taming of the Shrew"
by William Shakespeare.
The critic was Miss Hazel Hog-lund,
instructor of English in Ano-ka
High School. Along with the
rendering of the decisions, she
gave constructive criticisms of the
interpretations of each contestant.
The program was as follows:
Poetry -
"Chicago" Carl Sandburg
Miriam Johanson
"Lilacs" Amy Lowell
Violet Carlson
"Patterns" Amy Lowell
Betty Anderson
"The Blindman" Harvey Allen
Olga Anderson
"The Barrel Organ" Alfred Noyes
Helen Heitzman
"Eruption in Utopia"
Genevieve Taggard
Joyce Johnson
"Four Preludes on Playthings of
the Wind" Carl Sandburg
Jeanette Peterson
"To a Contemporary Bunk-shooter"
Carl Sandburg
Betty White
"A Musical Instrument"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Phyllis Karlson
"Jazz Fantasia" Carl Sandburg
Ruth Lundquist
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Bethel Men Hold
Festivity Night
Laying aside their duties for an
evening, the men of Bethel met to-gether
in the J. C. Chapel for an
evening of fun and entertainment.
Mr. Harry Brownlee presented a
magically illustrated sermonette.
After a couple of cuts of apple
pie a la mode, the group was
shown a sound film dealing with
training of pilots for the U. S.
Army Air Corps. This feature was
especially interesting to the young
men, because of the extensive
training being given at the present
time. The film started out with
the greenhorn pilot, who had just
enlisted to train in a civilian fly-ing
school. After a period of train-ing
in fundamentals of airplane
flight, the pilot was transferred to
Randolph Field, "West Point of
the Air." Three months were
spent here training in basic com-bat
training planes. An advanced
course in formation flying, aero-nautical
engineering principles,
airplane mechanics, and related
courses was given in an additional
three months visit to Kelly Field,
the main training field of fighter
pilots. The pilot not only learned
of combat in the sky, but was also
drilled in ground drills and tac-tics.
Dean Emery Johnson was mas-ter
of ceremonies at the party.
Prose
"The Weaker Sex" Jane Youngman
Jeanette Peterson
"They Grind Exceeding Small"
Ben Ames Williams
Helen Heitzman
"How I Succeeded in My Busi-ness"
Stephen Leacock
Violet Carlson
"Later" Michael Foster
Laverne Berglund
Drama
"The Fool" Channing Pollock
Joyce Johnson
"The Taming of the Shrew"
Shakespeare
Ruth Lundquist
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Frosh Lectures
By Dave Moberg
March 21 Professor Norstrom
spoke on the subject "Christian
Service through Natural Sciences."
Many problems and many voca-tions,
such as medicine, crime, and
armies and navies, have arisen be-cause
man fell into sin. God has a
definite relation to every vocation
in the world today. God has said
many things pertaining to science
in the Bible, but it took a long
time for many of them to sink into
the minds and experience of man.
Goodyear, McCormick, Jessep,
Faraday, Baldwin, and countless
other famous Christian scientists
and business men have been will-ing
to sacrifice and suffer so that
others can reap the benefits of
their work.
We should always remember the
first commandment, "Lay all forms
of life under your dominion," and
that means we should begin by
making our own body the type of
machine that will serve us in years
to come. A second thing we should
remember is that we should meet
the problems of our day; they are
the same as those in the days of
pioneers, but they're clothed in
different garments. Above all, we,
as Americans, have a big job, to
make America strong physically,
nationally, and spiritually.
* * * *
On March 28 Professor Carlson
led a class discussion on the sub-ject,
"What Constitutes a Divine
Call in Life and How Does It
Come?"
1. Realization of a need.
2. The ability to fill the need.
3. A desire to fill the need.
4. Opportunity to do the work.
5. A feeling of satisfaction re-sulting
from the decision.
6. Messages from the Scriptures.
7. A still, small, inner voice.
8. Signs (this category would in-clude
all other groups, and would
also include the closing or opening
of opportunities to service).
In closing Professor Carlson
again stressed the fact that there
is no one procedure which we can
lay down and say that this is the
way in which God calls men.
Gospel Groups Visit
Cambridge and Isle
Appelquist, Hoglund,
Johnson Are Speaker
Two gospel teams went out from
Bethel last Sunday to present the
Word in song and speech.
One went to Cambridge where
Ray Appelquist brought the mes-sage
in the morning and Gunnar
Hoglund presented the evening
service. The trio, Dorothy Nelson,
Mary Ann Liljenstrom, and Ann
Marie Wallberg, sang. Francis
McOlash gave an instrumental se-lection.
Professor Norstrom represented
the faculty on the trip, and also
taught the men's Bible class, in
the morning.
A second team traveled to Op-stead
for Sunday morning services,
and to Isle for an evening service.
Gordon Johnson was speaker for
this group. Assisting him in song
were Ruth Elaine Lundquist, Ruth
Johnson, and Leona Smith. Jack
Bergeson drove the bus which
transported both teams, leaving the
first at Cambridge on the way
north.
Sable Speaks at Program
Ably holding the attention of the
Missionary Band members, Miss
Sabel presented an illustrated talk
on the work being done for the
lepers throughout the world.
"This field was once neglected,"
said Miss Sabel, "but at the pres-ent
time at least two denomina-tions
are working in this field."
Following Miss Sabel's talk, Le-ona
Pearson read excerpts from
some recently received missionary
letters. Irene Nelson and Esther
Osby played and sang two songs.
Sara Mae Srwensson and LaVerne
Berglund arranged an interesting
table for the serving of the re-freshments.
After the refresh-ments,
the group enjoyed a fellow-ship
hour.
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Adam Is Given
Radio by Teams
Gift Is Token of Esteem
Players Feel for Coach
The members of the men's and
women's basketball squads met in
the college Coffee Shoppe on Fri-day,
March 28, to honor Coach Bill
Adam. An RCA mantel type radio
was presented him by the players,
managers, and others connected
with the teams as a ,token of ap-preciation
for his endless hours of
painstaking effort on the basket-ball
floor.
In the short time Adam has been
here he has turned out some pow-erful
teams in both the men's and
women's departments. The entire
sports setup has been revolution-ized
under the Adam regime to
give everyone a part in the school's
athletic program.
The presentation of this gift is
merely exemplary of the high es-teem
in which Coach Adam is held
by those who work with him daily.
Baseball Practice Begins
Men Start Workout
In Gym
Baseball practice started official-ly
on Monday, March 24, when
thirteen candidates reported for
the initial workout of the season.
Coach Adam stated that he intend-ed
putting the men through a se-ries
of daily calisthenics and ex-ercises
to loosen up arm muscles
stiff from disuse. Outdoor prac-tice
will be scheduled as soon as
the weather permits.
Prospects for a strong team look
fairly bright as there are seven re-turning
lettermen and plenty of
competition for the open spots re-maining.
Those reporting from last
year's squad are Francis McOlash,
Warren Johnson, Gordon Peterson,
Truman Halvorsen, Red Mar-quardt,
Val Hauk, and Ole Nelson.
New candidates are Herschel Rog-ers,
Conrad Tedlund, Roland Gus-tafson,
Ed Nelson, Elwood Ander-son,
and Vic Osterman.
Last year's outfield returned in-tact
with Johnson in left field,
Marquardt in center, and Halvor-sen
in right. McOlash, Hauk, and
Tedlund will probably get the hurl-ing
assignments while the catch-ing
positiin is still anybody's spot.
Peterson will probably again get
the nod at the initial sack while
the other three infield spots re-main
to be filled. If these posi-tions
can be successfully assigned,
a better than average season can
be expected.
Coach Adam stated that some
work would be done during Easter
vacation to put the diamond in
shape for play. The first contest
of a ten game schedule will be
slated for the first week in May.
CHAPEL SPEAKER
Reverend Carl Nelson, pastor of
the Evangelical Free Church of St.
Paul, will be the chapel speaker
tomorrow, April 1.
Plugs Defeat Gophers
Twice To Enter
Gym Class Finals
After suffering a close defeat at
the hands of the Gophers, the
Plugs, of the freshmen gym class,
came back to capture the class ti-tle
by virtue of two straight vic-tories.
The first game was the
Plug's all the way. They were
leading 13 to 2 at the half, and fin-ished
on the long end of a 27 to 11
score. Wessman led the Plugs
with 14 tallies, while Paul Ander-son
gathered five to pace the los-ers.
In the second game, the Gophers
started out with fire in their eyes.
They were on the long end of a
14 to 11 score at the half, but in
the deciding second half, couldn't
stave off the determined attack of
the Plugs, and succumbed to a 25-
20 defeat. This game gave the
Plugs the freshman class cham-pionship
team of the sophomore
class.
In the first game, the Plugs
'swamped the sophs 42-12. Wess-man
got twenty-one points to lead
the Plugs. Hoglund, captain of the
sophomore team, garnered seven
tallies for the losers. The series
will continue this afternoon, with
the winner of two out of three
games claiming the all-school
championship.
Men's !Recreation Clu6
Will Be Reorganized
At the Bethel men's meeting
sponsored by the faculty on Mon-day,
March 24, it was decided to
reorganize the men's recreation
club for the school year of 1941-42.
A committee of four members was
named to consider possible plans
for revitalizing the club. The com-mittee
members in the order
named, are: Bob Dischinger, Carl
Lundquist, Dury Miller, and Bob
Norstrom.
The club room on the third floor
of the college building is available
but some refurnishing is necessary.
Ping pong tournaments, horseshoe
tourneys, checker and chess con-tests,
and swimming meets would
be sponsored by the ,club. Inci-dentally,
Dean Emery Johnson has
already challenged all corners for a
chess series.
The club was first organized in
1936 and has functioned every year
since but this one. The' biggest
obstacle to overcome is the lack of
an active membership.
A volleyball team representing
the seminary class of middlemen
defeated the seniors in two games
of three by scores of 21 to 14, 20 to
22,, and 21 to 16. The series was
played on Wednesday, March 26, in
the seminary gym.
* *
Then there was the girl who
thought she was the village
belle until she was told.
* * * *
Francis McOlash came back
strong to take the third set of his
series with Gus Ferre for the all-school
handball championship.
Every point was hotly contested
with Mickey copping the first and
third games by scores of 21 to 12
and 21 to 19. Ferre won the sec-ond
by 21 to 11.
* * * *
Woman waits for man to pop
the question and question her
pop.
* * * *
Joe Louis' meeting with Abe Si-mon
in Detroit, Michigan, was his
fifteenth successful defense of the
heavyweight championship of the
world. No other man has ever be-fore
turned back so many contend-ers
for the title, but many of them
definitely belong to the "bum a
month" class with which the Bomb-er
is cavorting at present.
* * *
A woman had two sons. One
went to sea; the other became
vice president of the United
INTRAMURAL SPORTS
Coach Adam stated that intra-mural
softball would be introduced
in all the gym classes immediately
after classes are resumed follow-ing
the spring vacation. Everyone
is required to report for gym ex-cept
those excused for baseball
practice. An interclass tournament
will probably be arranged later in
the spring.
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The basketball team from the St.
Paul Central Baptist church, twin
city B.Y.P.U. champs, defeated a
fast team from the Bethel Baptist
church of Duluth by a score of 50
to S5. High score honors went to
Bill Adam, who caged twenty-four
points. The visitors stayed at the
school overnight and spent Sunday
here in St. Paul.
Life's like baseball. You're
often advanced to second or
third, but getting to first is
your own job.
"Did You Know" Dept
Lester Praire, smallest town in
the state to send a team to this
year's state basketball tournament,
has a population of only 450. Re-markable
is the fact that twenty-seven
of the thirty-five boys in the
school turned out for the squad at
the beginning of the present sea-son.
A man who watches the
clock generally remains just
one of the hands.
Coach Adam announced a pro-gram
of calisthenics for the wom-en's
gym classes and they decided
not to appear for their regular gym
period. Seems they are of the
opinion that no improvement is
necessary, "figuratively" speaking.
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